Sun 7 Feb 2021
Diary Review: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION. December 1966.
Posted by Steve under Diary Reviews , Magazines , Science Fiction & Fantasy[2] Comments
ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION. December 1966. [Cover by Kelly Freas.] Overall rating: 2½ stars.
MACK REYNOLDS “Amazon Planet.†Serial, Part 1 of 3. See report following Feb 1967 issue.
BEN BOVA “The Weathermakers.†[Kinsman series] Novelette. A hurricane forces Project THUNDERBIRD to begin complete weather control in the East. Smooth, almost documentary style, but reasons for abandoning ship during storm are not clear. (3)
Update: Excerpt from the novel of the same name (Signet, paperback original, 1967). Included in many collections of Bova’s short fiction.
L. EDEY. The Blue-Penciled Throop. Twelve letter from Oswald Lempe, editor of a technical journal. (2)
Update: This was the author’s only work of science fiction.
KRIS NEVILLE “The Price of Simeryl.†Novelette. A Federation investigator considers a planetary government’s request for credit and guns. An interesting picture o what appears to be an entrenched bureaucracy, but the ending is dumb. (2)
Update: Collected in The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (Southern University Press, hardcover, 1984).
PHILIP LATHAM “Under the Dragon’s Tail.†An astronomer goes mad with the approach of the asteroid Icarus. (1)
Update: Reprinted in On Our Way to the Future, edited by Terry Carr (Ace, paperback, 1970).
February 7th, 2021 at 8:50 pm
Bova collected the Kinsman stories in a fix-up, but this was a stand alone as I recall. Good story though I think, if I recall, the problem you list was addressed in longer form.
February 7th, 2021 at 8:57 pm
It very well may have. I wouldn’t have known about that at the time, of course, nor did the thought occur to me now while I was re-typing this old review. Choosing parts of a longer work to appear as standalones in magazine form is a longstanding practice, but I always hate it when it happens.